India 5G Alliance: CDoT is forming an Alliance, under the guidance of DoT, to bring together various ongoing R&D efforts in the industry, academia, startups etc. for the indigenous development of 5G. Under this effort, CDoT will extend leadership, promote best practices, generate research ideas and provide technical & financial support to the ecosystem partners for 5G development & its deployment. Ten separate consortiums have been formed under this alliance:
5G SA (Standalone) Core Network consortium
5G Open RAN (Radio Access Network) FR-1 consortium
5G Open RAN (Radio Access Network) FR-2 consortium
5G Transport consortium
5G Applications consortium
5G Enterprise Network consortium
5G Data Analytics consortium
5G Network Management, Automation and Orchestration consortium